“Oz: There’s no place like home. At least, not behind the prison walls.” - Before there was any such television programs as a "Prison Break”, “Orange is the New Black”, “Breakout Kings“, “Gangland”, “Lock Up”, and “Prisoners’ Wives”, there was the TV Show that changed television programs forever and the approach to mature storytelling. That show was none other than Tom Fontana’s 1997-2003 released Prison-Drama/Dark-Comedy, “Oz” (HBO). 😁👊🏻 Within the prison walls of Oswald State Correctional Facility, formerly Oswald State Penitentiary, a fictional level 4 maximum-security state prison that was made with the sole intention of housing and rehabilitating the worst sorts of low lives and criminal scums plucked from in and out of the United States of America. 🇺🇸 Emerald City (shortened as “Em City”) is an experimental unit managed by one, Tim McManus, a man who was as shortsighted as he was naive, believing the prison inmates would wish to “rehabilitate”, let alone abide by Oz’s regulations, considering they ARE scumbags! 😂👌🏻 Besides Oswald’s staff members, which includes the likes of Warden Leo Glynn (LOVE Ernie Hudson!), Dr.Gloria Nathan, Sister Peter Marie Reimondo, Father Ray Mukada, and the nastiest female correctional officer/sexual predator in Officer Claire Howell, you have the criminal scums themselves, including the likes of Tobias Beecher (one of the few souls with a heart), Minister Kareem Saïd, Vernon Schillinger (don’t mispronounce his name, the man HATES that! Haha), Simon Adebisi, Miguel Alvarez, Chris Keller, Chucky Pancamo, James Robson, and my favorite of the bunch, Ryan O’Reily, the proud Irishman and sadistic manipulator who Mr.Fontana has called the Iago (main antagonist from William Shakespeare’s “Othello”) of Oz, and for good reasons! 😈😏 Hehe The series, as mature and graphic as it can be, has plenty to offer! Twisted sense of humor, intriguing character dynamics, the extreme lengths inmates take to make friends/allies in order to survive, the not-so black & white nature of the prison facility, and provides an in-depth study of prison life. Definitely worth watching, oh yeah.... 😄😉 #Oz #HBO #PrisonLife #HomeSweetHome #NoPlaceLikeIt https://www.instagram.com/mrgamer990/p/Br41pHSDkKC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bvcea5d7o7kx
